C-Span video of Press Conf. Atty. General Loretta Lynch and Head of Civil Rights Div. Vanita Gupta to Announce Law Enforcement Action Related to N. C. — An Historic day! See DOJ site for actual complaint in MIDDLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA; PATRICK MCCRORY, in his official capacity as Governor of North Carolina; NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY; UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA; and BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, Defendants.
Also see by Kerry Eleveld today.
The 17-campus University of North Carolina system is hit hard by this federal-state conflict. Stay tuned!
”ATT. GEN. LYNCH: GOOD AFTERNOON, LADIES AND GERMAN. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. I'M JOINED BY THE HEAD OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION HERE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. WE ARE HERE TO ANNOUNCE A SIGNIFICANT LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION REGARDING NORTH CAROLINA'S PUBLIC FACILITIES ACT KNOWN AS HOUSE BILL NUMBER TWO. THE NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSED HOUSE BILL NUMBER TWO IN SPECIAL SESSION ON MARCH 23 OF THIS YEAR. THE BILL'S SHOT -- THE BILL SOUGHT TO STRIKE DOWN AN ANTIDISCRIMINATION PROVISION ...[...]… Excerpts of Full Transcript Here
C-Span Full Video here.
Brief: US Justice Department: HB2 violates Civil Rights Act,The Charlotte Observer, May 4, 2016
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Buffy Sainte-Marie put it best awhile back in her song No No Keshagesh [on her media site, scroll down for video]:
...[...]… You can't do that no more, (no more, no more no more) ...[...]...
Buffy often explains in her live performances (in 2009, Meteor Blades featured this also):
...[...]… Keshagesh means "greedy guts." "It's what you call a little puppy who eats his own and then wants everybody else's." ...[...]...
The whole, genuine meanness in North Carolinian HB2 of 2016 is another injustice that I believe can rightly come to mind when we listen to and read the lyrics of No No Keshagesh.
That’s just my opinion … And I’m so glad the U.S. DOJ has rightly condemned HB2